Syrian rebels are reporting that the Assad government’s forces are on the brink of collapse in the area around the armistice line between Syria and Israeli-occupied Golan, saying they believe they will soon have total control of the region.
The military has been shelling several rebel-held villages recently in an attempt to unseat the fighters who have flocked to the area, just the latest in a series of efforts to gain control over all borders.
Rebels initially had claimed the push into Golan was about forcing the Syrian military to stretch itself thinner, but the military has mostly declined to add ground troops to the area and is instead trying to use artillery to keep the rebels off balance.
While the rebels have used control over the Turkish border to import weapons, and control over parts of the Lebanese and Iraqi borders to reduce supply lines for government forces, the control over the Israel border region appears to be of little practical value, and with Israeli officials reportedly eying this region as a new “buffer zone” to occupy, it could bring the rebels into direct conflict with Israel.
Into direct conflict or in total cooperation.
Something tells me this particular rebel group is an Israeli subcontracted militia like the SLA was during Israel's 22 year occupation of Lebanon.
Or the Israelis are getting a taste of the not-Assad alternative. Assad may even be laying back a bit to give them that taste.
RE: "rebels' direct conflict with Israel" – that is the main idea of this "civil war". Thugs from Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Libya, and all other Sunni countries and "freedom fighters" incubators are fighting for a total control of Syria and then attack of Israel. Nobody should be surprised if that will happen.
The terrorists work for Israel and are attacking the Syrian region near Israel specifically to provide Israel with a pretext to openly attack Syria, by trying to coax the Syrian government to operate more heavily around that border region. A few terrorist mortar or rocket rounds will then strike nearby Israeli troops, the Israelis will blame the Syrian government, as Turkey did when terrorists false flagged some mortar rounds on their territory, and then Israel will use the pretext they generated to attack Syria.
The same duplicitous mechanism was used by Israel, and the west, when their terrorists recently used chemical weapons. The west promptly blamed the attack on the Syrian government, and started getting hysterical about wanting to now overtly attack Syria, showing that the west actually staged the attack themselves to use as a pretext to steamroll increased western military involvement to help their failing terrorist campaign there. Just as they did in Libya, when their terrorists started losing.